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NAMEtalkd -- remote user communication server
SYNOPSIStalkdDESCRIPTION
The talkd utility is the server that notifies a user that someone else
wants to initiate a conversation. It acts as a repository of invita-
tions, responding to requests by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a
conversation. In normal operation, a client, the caller, initiates a
rendezvous by sending a CTL_MSG to the server of type LOOK_UP (see
<protocols/talkd.h>). This causes the server to search its invitation
tables to check if an invitation currently exists for the caller (to
speak to the callee specified in the message).
If the lookup fails, the caller then sends an ANNOUNCE message causing
the server to broadcast an announcement on the callee's login ports
requesting contact.
When the callee responds, the local server uses the recorded invitation
to respond with the appropriate rendezvous address and the caller and
callee client programs establish a stream connection through which the
conversation takes place.
SEE ALSOtalk(1), write(1)HISTORY
The talkd utility appeared in 4.3BSD.
FreeBSD 10.1 December 11, 1993 FreeBSD 10.1